Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn:
>> Some operating systems or application offer "input systems" or "input
>> methods" which allow to enter non-standard characters.
>>
>> XeTeX also supports UTF-16 encodings. \XeTeXdefaultencoding{CharsetName} and
>> \XeTeXinputencoding{CharsetName} can set many others.
>
> IIRC anything but UTF-8 and UTF-16 is strongly discouraged.
What about UTF-32? It is quite rare for text documents, but nevertheless an
official Unicode encoding.
>
>> Me, I don't know of any font that switches typographic conventions based on
>> the script and language selected, what usually happens is that a different
>> set features is activated for the selected combination.
>
>> GNU Emacs offers input methods. One of them, always available, is C-q <some
>> number>, and the number can be octal, decimal, or hexadecimal.
>
> You just have to memorize the Unicodecode:-)
There are lots of other methods as well. The default input method (to be
activated via C-\) is RFC-1345, which seems to be the method that Vim uses for
its C-k sequences. C-q is just the most basic method.
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